John sandeks stevens



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN SANDERS STEVENS, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

EDGlNG-PLOW.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Iatent No. 396,714, dated January 22, 18819.

Serial No. 281,369. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN SANDERS STEVENS, engineer, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 48 Leicester Square, in London, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in an Edging-Plow for Gardening Purposes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in an edging-plow :f or gardening purposes. Its object is to lessen the labor involved in the use of the spade or other tool employed for turning back the mold from the edge of the lawn or other bordering and to render this operation continuous.

The construction and method of usin my invention will be readily understood by reference to the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of an edging-plow with turn-furrow cast, welded, or riveted on. Fig. 2 is a plan of the plow with socket. Fig. 3 is an elevation of same; Fig. 4, an enlarged view of the taper socket and tongue; Fig. 5, an end view showing the position of the tool when at work; Fig. (3,an elevation of plow having rollers; Fig. 7, a plan of plow fitted with rollers and cambered ends; Fig. 8, a plan of plow havinghi nged turn-furrow Fi 9, a plan showing turn-furrow mounted on spring; Fig. 10, an end view of plow, showing ratchet adj ustment.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in all the views.

A is a piece of wood, metal, or other suitable substance, of su tlicient length for my purpose, which I find to be from six to twelve inches, or more. This is so bent as to be of a rightangular shape, Fig. 5, and is adapted for fit ting the edge of a lawn or border. At any convenient point thereon I mount one or more eyes, e. These can be rigidly fixed, or they can be loosely riveted, so as to swivel in any direction.

To the side of the rectangular piece A, I fix an angular piece or turn-furrow, B, preferably formed of metal similar to A. This can be cast, riveted, or welded on solidly, as shown in Fig. 1; but as I find in practice it is con-' venient to vary the width of the furrow by inserting a turn furrow of varying angle I mount the same upon a taper socket, b, which can be cast with or riveted on the rectangular piece A. A taper tongue, U, having. a screwed. pin, (1, furnished with a nut, f, is cast upon or riveted to the turn-furrow 13. This tongue is passed into the socket '1), and can be securely fastened or unfastened, when required, by means of the nut f, as shown in Fig. L The socket-joint can also be formed vertically, if desired. A wooden handle, J, Figs. 2 and 3, which maybe straight or bent, furnished with a hook or equivalent device, '2', is now passed into the eye e and the plow placed upon the lawn, wood, or tile edging, (as the case may be,) X, as shown in Fig. 5.

By pulling or pushing the handle .I, when inserted in the eye 0., a continuous groove or furrow is formed in the mold, the turn-furrow B pressing back the earth and preserving it in a line parallel to the edging, thus making .a clean edge with a uniform depth. I sometimes serrate the lower edge of the turn-furrow, as at V, Figs. 6 and '7, or it may be formed after'the manner of a comb, as at O .in Figs. 2 and 3, to facilitate the cutting of still soil.

Further modifications of my invention consist in roundin or cambering the edges of the rectangular piece A, as at u, Figs. 6 and 7, and in inserting two or more rollers, g g. The rollers facilitate the traverse of the plow upon the lawn, tile, or other edging. I sometimes mount the angular piece or turn-furrow 13 upon a hinge-joint, 71, cast or formed in. the substance of. the rectangular piece A, as in Fig. 8. A set-screw, K, is pivoted at Z and fastened by lock-nuts p to lug m; or I vary this arran gemeu t by mountin the piece B on a plain. spring, S. (See Fig. U.) Any desired adjustment can. be given the turn-furrow 13 by means of the set-screw K and lock-nuts, or the set-screw may be replaced by a rack device, q, passing through a staple, n, mount-ed upon A, as shown in Fig. 10, and iiroducing a similar result.

The tool can be made ot circular or other shape for passing round corners, oval or other beds.

Having fully described myinvention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent is 1. An edging-plow for gardening purposes,

consisting of a plate bent at a right angle for 3. The right-angle plate A, having cainbered fitting upon the edge of border, having a turnends to and rollers g g mounted thereon, for furrow attached thereto, said plow operating the purposes set forth.

by means of a handle fitted with a hook, for In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 15 5 the purposes described. my hand in presence of two witnesses.

2. The combination of the edging-plow, hav- JOHN SANDERS STEVENS. ing the socket Z), with the turn-furrow having Tit-nesses: the tongue 0, screwed pin (Z, and nut f, for H. V. WV. GRAIN, purpose of fastening the parts A B, and the I. BRECKELs, 1o eye 6, mounted thereon,for operating the plow Clerks to ZVIessrs. Grain &' Sons, lVotaries, 46

by means of handle J, as described. Lombard St, London, E. O. 

